Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2020/09/02

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meetings, 2nd September

Simon Jolly, Saad Shaikh, Raffaella Radogna, Fern Pannell

Almost finished first draft of report: need to cut 1-2 pages and edit.
Simon is investigating how to send CSV data to HEP server.
Confirmed with TI how to daisy-chain DDCs – Simon to respond to Marko.
- J2 of daisy-chain board to be connected to J1 of board connected to FPGA.
- DOUT appears to be sent to DIN correctly on CosyLab circuit diagrams.
- OR gates to cascade DVALID signals across board in future design.
- Might be able to connect DVALID of 2nd board directly to FPGA for test with Raffy's DDC232, though Marko says current design won't work.
Tested CoolTerm on Raspberry Pi – doesn't seem to work. Fern has prepared Raspberry Pi to take home with CoolTerm installed.
Raffy to investigate built-in alternative to CoolTerm using stty and cat.
Need to test new jumper cables in setup – will go to UCL on Friday 4th September.

Completed online Javascript crash course.
- Need further work on asynchronous programming (async-await).
- Research JS promises.
- Need to look into libraries for parsing CSV data and interactive data visualisations.
Dual fan heat sink installed on 1 Pi.
- CPU temperature significantly reduced.
- Swapped out cooling pads for RS silicon gel - better thermal conductivity
3 SD cards loaded with essentials for use with Pi.
- Apache, PHP extensions, XRDP, Matchbox Keyboard, CoolTerm.
CoolTerm tested on Pi - cannot keep up with config data.